I tiptoed to the door, opened it, but stopped to look at him again. I can’t leave…. I whisper ”Steven”- no response. I walk quietly to his bed..., heart pounding. I took off his hoodie, my shirt, pants, bra and panties, I don't know what came over me but damn it I just needed him. I get in bed with him and roll on top of his stomach to the other side of the bed. I realize he’s clothesless when I get under the covers and he rolls over against me but still asleepThis was not how I envisioned this. If you sat on his lap now, he might take that as permission.”“Permission to what?”“Touch you in ways you might not want him to. He’s a man and you’re becoming a beautiful woman. I’m not sure he could resist you if you sat on his lap now.”“I won’t,” she said.“I’m not telling you what to, or not to do, Emily,” I said, standing back up. “I’ve done my job again and informed you. I can’t watch over you twenty-four hours a day, so if you did, for some reason, decide to sit on his lap, it wouldn’t be. She had jokingly told him that she had held back during their matches so she didn't kill him, but after this experience he never doubted that she could indeed do just that. He now admired her profile above him, which was the embodiment of an ancient warrior godess. There was not one ounce of excess fat on her body. You could see that she worked out daily, but she had the flexible tonicity of a fighter rather than the sculptured muscles of a body builder. Everything about her was nimble and. ‘How’s business, Harold? Are most contractors busy right now?’ I asked, hoping to find out how eager they would be to quote on the work I was planning to have done to the Peoples’ property. Paige acted so quickly that her knee missed mine, coming up under my leg and lifting it off the ground, surprising both of us. She retreated, blushing. I took it as a warning that I was treading on dangerous ground. ‘We’re in the midst of a slowdown, Brian. People are hunkering down. There’s only a limited.